Dan Adler

The cover of the report, with dark blue title "How Big Cloud becomes Bigger" with "Bigger" in bold, and subtitle in light blue "Scrutinizing Google Microsoft and Amazon's investments", and light grey author line "David Gray Widder and Nathan Kim" on light grey page background with three clouds: white, dark grey, and very dark grey getting bigger and going towards the top right until they're off the page.

📣🚨NEW: ☁️ Big Cloud—Google, Microsoft & Amazon—control two thirds of the cloud compute market. They’re getting rich off the AI gold rush.

In new work with @nathanckim.bsky.social, we show how Big Cloud is expanding their empire by scrutinizing their *investments*… 🧵

📄PDF: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

📢 Announcing the 10th Mental Health Workshop at Ubicomp/ISWC 2025 in Espoo, Finland, October 12th or 13th (TBD).

📝 We invite papers exploring the role of ubiquitous computing + mental health in clinical and/or general populations.

📅 Submission deadline June 13. More ubicomp-mental-health.github.io

Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.

"But what Trump is doing is not reform, it is subversion. And it could not come at a worse time."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social @newyorker.com

There are very few people who work harder for the greater public good than NSF program officers. An already challenging task of thoughtfully supporting US scientific advancement is now even harder, with there colleagues brazenly laid off to support the radical agenda of Musk.

Designing Technologies for Value-based Mental Healthcare: Centering Clinicians' Perspectives on Outcomes Data Specification, Collection, and Use Health information technologies are transforming how mental healthcare is paid for through value-based care programs, which tie payment to data quantifying care outcomes. But, it is unclear what outco...

Really excited to share a preprint of our upcoming CHI 2025 paper on designing technologies for value-based mental healthcare. I've been interested in how HCI can improve health services more broadly, and this paper takes a first step towards that.

www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.01829

I have a friend looking for data science / AI / ML in health / publichealth roles.

PhD-level, U.S.-based, computational biology background. Interested in high impact work. Open to both large and small companies, remote or near a major city in the U.S.

DM if you know any available opportunities!

This topic seems to be evergreen "more important than ever". The deadline for this summer program at @cornelltech.bsky.social is Jan 21!

If you want to be our neighbor at Cornell Tech, now you can: "The Bridge" (love this name) allows startup companies and other orgs to enjoy the peace and quiet of our campus (plus the proximity, of course), while staying one hop away from Manhattan.

tech.cornell.edu/the-bridge-a...

DUB REU Program Summer 2025

Our DUB REU summer internship program for undergraduates is open again for applications! It's ~9 week paid, paired with a DUB faculty member and hosted at UW to work on HCI research, broadly construed.

Deadline 1/31.

Please share with your students! dub.uw.edu/reu.html

Screenshot of Nature website of linked article with title "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1" and abstract: This paper examines ‘open’ artificial intelligence (AI). Claims about ‘open’ AI often lack precision, frequently eliding scrutiny of substantial industry concentration in large-scale AI development and deployment, and often incorrectly applying understandings of ‘open’ imported from free and open-source software to AI systems. At present, powerful actors are seeking to shape policy using claims that ‘open’ AI is either beneficial to innovation and democracy, on the one hand, or detrimental to safety, on the other. When policy is being shaped, definitions matter. To add clarity to this debate, we examine the basis for claims of openness in AI, and offer a material analysis of what AI is and what ‘openness’ in AI can and cannot provide: examining models, data, labour, frameworks, and computational power. We highlight three main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. However, we find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI. Just as many traditional open-source software projects were co-opted in various ways by large technology companies, we show how rhetoric around ‘open’ AI is frequently wielded in ways that exacerbate rather than reduce concentration of power in the AI sector.

📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies. 



This means "open" AI… isn't very open.

📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Attention PhD students interested in digital safety: applications are now open for the Security, Trust, and Safety Fellowships at Cornell Tech!

Eligible projects must focus on adversarial threats to security, privacy and user safety on digital infrastructures.

🚡🚡🚡 mailchi.mp/tech/applica... 🚡🚡🚡

HUGE thanks to all my collaborators (Yuewen Yang, Thalia Viranda, @orsonxu.bsky.social, David Mohr, Anna Van Meter, Julia Tartaglia, Nick Jacobson, Fei Wang, @destrin.bsky.social, and Tanzeem Choudhury) for your help on this work!

In the paper, we both analyze the shortcomings of existing #AI approaches to detect #mentalhealth with ubiquitous sensing technologies, and take a human-centered approach to identify next steps for the field. (2/3)

Our IMWUT paper advocating for #ubicomp #AI research to develop technologies supporting context-specific actions in clinical #mentalhealth care is up on the ACM DL! (1/3)

dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join the Human AI Collaboration lab at Kellogg, NU CS, and @nicoatnu.bsky.social

If you're excited about computational social science, LLMs, digital experiments, real-world problem solving, this could be a great fit

Please reshare!

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highly recommend for phd students who want to transition from reviewing to ac-ing! I was an ac for the lbw track last year and it was very manageable and a great learning experience :)

A photo of Boulder, Colorado, shot from above the university campus and looking toward the Flatirons.

I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to work with me at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for creative students with interests in #NLP and #CulturalAnalytics.

Boulder is a lovely college town 30 minutes from Denver and 1 hour from Rocky Mountain National Park 😎

Apply by December 15th!

Intro'ing! I'm a researcher in #HCI / #Health / #UbiComp / Responsible #AI. Developing data-driven tech and AI models for clinical care. #mentalhealth focused to date.

Excited to connect with folks 🙂

The health policy and economics division at Weill Cornell is hiring a programmer analyst. Successful candidates will have experience building and analyzing insurance claims data files for research. We have a fun and collaborative environment! jobs.weill.cornell.edu/NY/job/New-Y...